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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Oklahoma
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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You switched the days, I said, dismayed. You blew the tire. You... I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be You are enough to do this? or You're destined for a life of crime. It was a toss-up either way.
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You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.
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She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him... It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing.
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She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say, So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.
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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.
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Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.
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Give me everything you have, I told [Preston]. Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.
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Did you hear that? I'm special.
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to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.
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I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
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I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back. You ran away, Katarina. And now I'm back. You're still running.
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Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)
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How'd you get in here? She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
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Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.
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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
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It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
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Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket? He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle. The only way I'll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire, she told him.
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You should have had the decency to die when you needed to. “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.
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